Thursday, March 25, 2010

This is a short list of things that CNN push notifications on my iPhone has ruined for me. Like many other people I rely on my DVR to watch sporting events. It allows me to get up when I want and fast forward through annoying commentary and commercials. Naturally this means I do not know who won the game right as it ends because I have build up a little buffer on my DVR. Well thanks to CNN push notifications I have now learned who won the Gold Medals at the Winter Olympics, the winner of the Super Bowl and the winner of the World Series all in the minutes before I got to watch for myself.

Someone reading this has to be saying "Hey idiot! Don't subscribe to push notifications." I get that, but I also like to know when things like earth quakes happen or when an important political decision has been made, and CNN push notifications are the best way I have found to get that info.

So I plea: CNN, please give us categories to choose from for push notifications. At least give us the option to turn off sporting events. I rarely want to wait on my DVR to see who won a political election, but like many other people I love my DVR for sports.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The iPhone App Store's arbitrary and inconsistent approval process continues to baffle and annoy on every level, as Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected...for using the word 'iPhone' in the title. Apparently Apple doesn't like app names or icons to include the word iPhone or images of the iPhone -- which arguably makes sense on some level -- but you'd think a freaking iPhone reference manual would warrant an exception, wouldn't you? Making matters worse, it appears that one Mr. David Pogue didn't have this problem, as his iPhone: The Missing Manual was approved with title and icon intact. Sigh. Phil Schiller -- deploy!